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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at the heightened anti-communist paranoia on the early 1950s and how it led to the Girl Scouts of America being accused of promoting communism. ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg Angela Davis: https://youtu.be/VMzpkYg6wOY The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU Birth of the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/8glmBbBENlk America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #GirlScouts #Scouts #GirlscoutsUSA #Communism #mccarthyism #1950s **SOURCES** https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/fire.html https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1955/05/what-happened-to-the-girl-scouts/306925/ https://estes-kefauver.com/2025/02/10/red-and-green-dont-mix-when-the-american-legion-declared-war-on-the-girl-scouts https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/fire.html#:~:text=%22Stand%20fast%2C%20men%20,armed%20with%20marshmallows https://perso.univ-lyon2.fr/~jkempf/girl_scouts.pdf https://openlibrary.org/books/OL54439279M/Training_girls_for_needs_today https://archive.org/details/girlscouthandboo0000juli https://exhibits.tufts.edu/spotlight/girls-books/catalog/32-2375 https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-girl-scouts-were-accused-of-being-commies/ https://gshistory.com/2014/05/09/the-girl-scout-red-scare-part-two\ https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1954&_f=md002930 https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781469686837 https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP70-00058R000300020032-1.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/community.41105793.pdf?acceptTC=true&coverpage=false&addFooter=false